Category Archives: Internet Safety Day

Pupils at the King’s School, Worcester took part in an interactive display in the Library, led by Librarian Annabel Jeffery. The UK Safer Internet Centre wanted to promote respect and kindness online with a campaign to encourage young people to share positive messages in specially designed heart signs which were printed off and made available to pupils. Gold DofE volunteers kicked the whole thing off by volunteering to be poster boys which inspired other pupils from all years to take part. Pupils wrote some lovely messages such as “I only tweet positive messages” and “I will only be kind and considerate on social media”. These were added to a display in the library throughout the day. The main focus however was sharing these messages with the online community by uploading photos of the pupils with their messages on the Library Twitter feed (@KSWLibrary) which is where the unfolding picture of the day can best be appreciated. Another display in the library highlighted online safety issues such as trolling, grooming, cyberbullying, and staying safe on social media. Pupils had great fun and hopefully gained a better awareness of how positive behaviour online can make the internet a better (and safer) place.

Heart of the School on Twitter

Best Practice

My Goodreads YA Shelf

I find it hard to rate Francis Hardinge's books. Although they are YA and about young people they seem better read by adults. The writing is wonderful but the plots are dense and convoluted. This one is no different. I really loved the b...

An okay dystopian novel. The premise was good - the death of trees bringing a world without oxygen so people have to love in domes controlled by the elite. That serves as a great environmental warning. But the plot is thin and the charac...

This book held me spellbound from start to finish. It is a ghost story set in the Arctic, but very much in the way of Henry James (The Turn of the Screw). Five young men in 1932 set out to spend a year in a remote part of Iceland making ...

This is the second book in the Railhead series, and one I had been waiting for. Zen and Nova have travelled into the the new gate they made into the unknown. What they find there is not nothing, as the Network Empire had led them to beli...

OrangeBoy is a fantastic book, definitely one for your older YA readers though. Set in and around Brixton, it tells the story of a young black boy called Marlon whose brother had been involved in drugs, but who desperately wants not to f...